The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09

oun Wy among tl1e nations Nearly
I'll ths grinf missionary movements
have been started within the century,
and zee what one century has done
TO recover the world from ffty-nine CEN
turies Of devastation What great reyivalsi
What mighty churchesi What saved mil
lionst What advancing civilization In all
the United States, Great Britain, Ireland,
France, Germany, Italy fun freedom to wor-
ship God according TO conscience. Along the
coasts Of China. Japan and Africa the bat
teries are planted which are to take all these
empires for God and civilization. From the
ruins of Babylon and Assvria and Nineveh
and the valleys Of the Nile combinations
have been exhumed proving to all fair
minded men that the Bible is the
truest book ever written The myth
oiogies Of Egypt were found 70 have
embodied in them the knowledge of mans
expulsion from Paradise, and the sacrifice of
a great emancipation. Moses account Of the
creation, corroborated by the hammer of
Christian biologists; the oldest profane
writers like Hiromus, Helanicus and Berosus,
confirming the Bible account of ancient
longevity; Tacitus and Pliny confirming the
Bible accounts of destroyed Sodom and Go
rnorrah Tacitus and Porphyry telling the
same story of Christ Matthew and Luke
| told; Macrobius telling of the massacre Of
| children in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketch
| ing the darkness at the cruciixion. 1t is de-
| monstrated to all honest men that it is
not so certain that William Cullen Bryant
wrote Thanatopsis or Longfellow wrote
| Hiawatha as that God by the hand of prophet
and apostle wrote the Bible. All the wise
men in science, and law, and medicine, and
| literature and merchandise are gradually
coming to believe in Christianity, and soon
there viii be no people who disbelieve in it,
except those conspicuous for lack of brain or
men with two families, who do not like the
| Bible because it rebukes their swinish pro-
| pensities.
| The time is Fastening when there viii be no
| infdels left except libertines and harlots and
| murderers. Millions of Christians where once
| there were thousands, and thousands where
| once there were hundreds What a bright
| evening this, the evening of the nineteenth
| century! and the twentieth century, which
| will dawn in thirteen years from now, Will,
In my opinion, bring universal victory for
Christ and the church, that now is marching
| on with step double quick OF, if you prefer
| the figure of the text, is beng swept on in
the mighty gales of blessing, imposing and
grand and majestic and swift, like pillars of
| smoke.
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the door, a door more glorious that that of
| the Temple Of Hercules, which had two pill
lars, and one was gold and the other emerald
| Come in today Come in and be one of the
eternal victorsl The world you leave behind
| is poor world, and 1T will burn and pass off
like pillars of smoke. Whether the final con-
| fiagration will start in the coal mines of
| Pennsylvania, which, in some places, have
for many years been burning and eating
| into the heart of the mountains; or whether
it shall begin near the California geysers, OF
| whether from out of the furnaces of Cotopoxi
and Vesuyius and Stromboli, it shall burst
| forth upon the astonished nations. / make
no prophecy, but all biologists tell us
that we stand on the lid of world
the heart of which is raging, roaring, awful
flame, and some day God will let the red mon
sters out OF their imprisonment of centuries
and New York on fire in 1885 and Charleston
on fire in 1865 and Chicago on fire in 1872 and
Boston on fire in 1878 were only like one spark
from blacksmith's forge as compared with
that last universal blaze, which win be
seen in other worlds But gradually the
flames will lessen and the world will
become a great living coal, and that
will take ashen hue, and then ouI
ruined planet will begin to smoke, and the
mountains will smoke, and the valleys viii
smoke, and the islands will smoke, and The
seas will smoke, and the cities viii smoke, and
the five continents viii be five pillars of smoke
But the black vapors will begin to lessen il
height and density, and then win become
hardly visible to those who look upon it from
the sky galleries, and after a while from just
one point there will curl up thin solitary
vapor, and then even that will vanish anC
there will be nothing left except the charred
| rlIlp n q Onf fha of q
dead star, the ashes of an extinguisheG
planet, fallen pillar of smoke
But that will not interfere with your in
vestments if you have taken Christ as YOU
Saviour. Secure heaven as your eterna
home, you can look down upon dismantled
disrupted and demolished earth without any
perturbation.
When wrapped in fire the realms of ether glow
And heavens last thunder shake the earth below
Thou, undismayed, shalt DER the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at natures funeral pile.